227 quotes
"All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."
- Abraham Lincoln
Love
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
- Abraham Lincoln
Leadership
"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."
- Abraham Lincoln
Courage
"Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end, you are sure to succeed."
- Abraham Lincoln
Courage
"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."
- Abraham Lincoln
Responsibility
"Whatever you are, be a good one."
- Abraham Lincoln
Personal Growth
"As Abraham Lincoln once said, if we magnified our successes as much as we magnified our disappointments, we’d all be much happier."
- Abraham Lincoln
Positivity
"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth."
- Abraham Lincoln
Motivation
"There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes."
- Abraham Lincoln
Adversity
"I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it."
- Abraham Lincoln
Compassion
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count; it's the life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln
Reflection
"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."
- Abraham Lincoln
Determination
"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have."
- Abraham Lincoln
Integrity
"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."
- Abraham Lincoln
Failure
"I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down."
- Abraham Lincoln
Success
"In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln
Contentment
"If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem."
- Abraham Lincoln
Leadership
"All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."
- Abraham Lincoln
Gratitude
"To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own."
- Abraham Lincoln
Compassion
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing."
- Abraham Lincoln
Success
"I do the very best I know how, the very best I can and I mean to keep doing so until the end."
- Abraham Lincoln
Persistence
"The things I want to know are in books. My best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I [haven’t] read."
- Abraham Lincoln
Knowledge
"I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down."
- Abraham Lincoln
Connection to Earth
"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend first four sharpening the axe."
- Abraham Lincoln
Hard Work
"Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged."
- Abraham Lincoln
Wisdom
"Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good."
- Abraham Lincoln
Awareness
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln
Reflection
"If I had nine hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first six sharpening my axe."
- Abraham Lincoln
Success
"I will prepare, and someday my chance will come."
- Abraham Lincoln
Ambition
"I will prepare and someday my chance will come."
- Abraham Lincoln
Aspirations
"In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln
Reflection
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."
- Abraham Lincoln
Wisdom
"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln
Wisdom
"It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong."
- Abraham Lincoln
Courage
"This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
- Abraham Lincoln
Hope
"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all."
- Abraham Lincoln
Wisdom
"I feel the need of reading. It is a loss to a man not to have grown up among books."
- Abraham Lincoln
Education
"Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country’s cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause."
- Abraham Lincoln
Compassion
"The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here."
- Abraham Lincoln
Courage
"Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause."
- Abraham Lincoln
Gratitude
"Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere who bravely bears his country’s cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause."
- Abraham Lincoln
Courage
"I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end."
- Abraham Lincoln
Leadership
"Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be."
- Abraham Lincoln
Happiness
"If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive"
- Abraham Lincoln
Courage
"If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive."
- Abraham Lincoln
Wisdom
"When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees."
- Abraham Lincoln
Leadership
""I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.""
- Abraham Lincoln
Courage
"I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side."
- Abraham Lincoln
Leadership
"I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day."
- Abraham Lincoln
Adversity
"It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced."
- Abraham Lincoln
Responsibility
"When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say."
- Abraham Lincoln
Empathy
"“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”"
- Abraham Lincoln
Future
"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough."
- Abraham Lincoln
Compassion
"The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence."
- Abraham Lincoln
Determination
"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."
- Abraham Lincoln
Family
"I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."
- Abraham Lincoln
Personal Growth
"Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."
- Abraham Lincoln
Integrity
"My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth."
- Abraham Lincoln
Aspirations
"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."
- Abraham Lincoln
Belief
"It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln
Well-being
"It's not the years of your life that count. It's the life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln
Contentment
"If I only had an hour to chop down a tree, I would spend the first 45 minutes sharpening my axe."
- Abraham Lincoln
Education
"Next to creating a life, the finest thing a man can do is save one."
- Abraham Lincoln
Service
"Folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
- Abraham Lincoln
Happiness
"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves."
- Abraham Lincoln
Belief
"I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day."
- Abraham Lincoln
Faith
"Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most."
- Abraham Lincoln
Self-improvement
"Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality."
- Abraham Lincoln
Determination
"No man stands taller than when he stoops to help a child."
- Abraham Lincoln
Courage
"Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right."
- Abraham Lincoln
Belief
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing."
- Abraham Lincoln
Determination
""Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.""
- Abraham Lincoln
Hard Work
"History rarely yields to one person, but think and never forget what happens when it does. That can be you. That should be you. That must be you."
- Abraham Lincoln
Leadership
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing."
- Abraham Lincoln
Determination
""Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.""
- Abraham Lincoln
Education
"“This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”"
- Abraham Lincoln
Courage
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
- Abraham Lincoln
Resilience
"I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better."
- Abraham Lincoln
Teamwork
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."
- Abraham Lincoln
Hope
"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."
- Abraham Lincoln
Happiness
"No man is poor who has a Godly mother."
- Abraham Lincoln
Faith
"The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one."
- Abraham Lincoln
Philosophy
"The mystic chords of memory… will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
- Abraham Lincoln
Hope
"No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child."
- Abraham Lincoln
Compassion
"If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem."
- Abraham Lincoln
Leadership
"Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed."
- Abraham Lincoln
Perseverance
"The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature."
- Abraham Lincoln
Inspiration
"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."
- Abraham Lincoln
Happiness
"You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was."
- Abraham Lincoln
Personal Growth
"Most people are about as happy as they make their minds up to be."
- Abraham Lincoln
Happiness
"All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."
- Abraham Lincoln
Faith
"Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults."
- Abraham Lincoln
Education
"And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln
Philosophy
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."
- Abraham Lincoln
Determination
"At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."
- Abraham Lincoln
Responsibility
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other."
- Abraham Lincoln
Determination
"Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."
- Abraham Lincoln
Efficiency
"Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition, is yet to be developed."
- Abraham Lincoln
Ambition
"Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost."
- Abraham Lincoln
Hard Work
"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong."
- Abraham Lincoln
Integrity
"Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition."
- Abraham Lincoln
Self-improvement
"I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end."
- Abraham Lincoln
Determination
"That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well."
- Abraham Lincoln
Achievement
"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."
- Abraham Lincoln
Wisdom
"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."
- Abraham Lincoln
Hard Work
"I will prepare and some day my chance will come."
- Abraham Lincoln
Motivation
"When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion."
- Abraham Lincoln
Morality
"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."
- Abraham Lincoln
Learning
"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next."
- Abraham Lincoln
Education
"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"
- Abraham Lincoln
Relationships
"Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way."
- Abraham Lincoln
Determination
"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent. I say this is the leading principle – the sheet anchor of American republicanism."
- Abraham Lincoln
Belief in Self
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."
- Abraham Lincoln
Belief
"The people – the people – are the rightful masters of both congresses and courts – not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert it."
- Abraham Lincoln
Leadership
"Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? IS there any better or equal hope in the world?"
- Abraham Lincoln
Hope
"The people will save their government, if the government itself will do its part only indifferently well."
- Abraham Lincoln
Responsibility
"It is as much the duty of government to render prompt justice against itself, in favor of citizens, as it is to administer the same between private individuals."
- Abraham Lincoln
Responsibility
"The people’s will, constitutionally expressed, is the ultimate law for all."
- Abraham Lincoln
Belief
"It is said that we have the best government the world ever knew, and I am glad to meet you, the supporters of that government."
- Abraham Lincoln
Belief
"Happy day, when, all appetites controlled, all poisons subdued, all matter subjected, mind all conquering mind, shall live and move the monarch of the world."
- Abraham Lincoln
Determination
"I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not."
- Abraham Lincoln
Motivation
"Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life."
- Abraham Lincoln
Motivation
"All creation is a mine, and every man a miner."
- Abraham Lincoln
Inspiration
"A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones."
- Abraham Lincoln
Education
"I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest."
- Abraham Lincoln
Belief
"Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves. LET US HAVE FAITH THAT RIGHT MAKES MIGHT, AND IN THAT FAITH, LET US, TO THE END, DARE TO DO OUR DUTY AS WE UNDERSTAND IT."
- Abraham Lincoln
Courage
"Truth is generally the best vindication against slander."
- Abraham Lincoln
Integrity
"Bad promises are better broken than kept."
- Abraham Lincoln
Integrity
"To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell."
- Abraham Lincoln
Faith
"Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty."
- Abraham Lincoln
Faith
"Work, work, work, is the main thing."
- Abraham Lincoln
Hard Work
"I am not ashamed to confess that twenty-five years ago I was a hired laborer, mauling rails, at work on a flatboat – just what might happen to any poor man’s son. I want every man to have a chance."
- Abraham Lincoln
Motivation
"Let none falter, who thinks he is right, and we may succeed."
- Abraham Lincoln
Perseverance
"When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that a “drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.”"
- Abraham Lincoln
Leadership
"Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed."
- Abraham Lincoln
Leadership
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any one thing."
- Abraham Lincoln
Motivation
"The struggle of today is not altogether for today – it is for a vast future also."
- Abraham Lincoln
Inspiration
"I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it."
- Abraham Lincoln
Contribution
"The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships."
- Abraham Lincoln
Relationships
"All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."
- Abraham Lincoln
Gratitude
"I say ‘try’; if we never try, we shall never succeed."
- Abraham Lincoln
Perseverance
"I have received nothing but kindness at your hands."
- Abraham Lincoln
Gratitude
"With malice towards none, with charity for all… let us strive on to finish the work we are in."
- Abraham Lincoln
Hope
"My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read."
- Abraham Lincoln
Relationships
"My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."
- Abraham Lincoln
Faith
"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all."
- Abraham Lincoln
Knowledge
"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion."
- Abraham Lincoln
Belief
"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves"
- Abraham Lincoln
Belief in Self
"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."
- Abraham Lincoln
Courage
"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
- Abraham Lincoln
Honesty
"I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody."
- Abraham Lincoln
Ambition
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
- Abraham Lincoln
Honesty
"Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing."
- Abraham Lincoln
Integrity
"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
- Abraham Lincoln
Peace
"I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all."
- Abraham Lincoln
Hope
"If you want to test a man's character, give him power."
- Abraham Lincoln
Adversity
"You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time but you cannot fool all the people all the time."
- Abraham Lincoln
Awareness
"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."
- Abraham Lincoln
Integrity
"Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today."
- Abraham Lincoln
Productivity
"And in the end, it is not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln
Personal Growth
"Every man's happiness is his own responsibility."
- Abraham Lincoln
Responsibility
"I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."
- Abraham Lincoln
Contribution
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other thing."
- Abraham Lincoln
Motivation
"I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me, and I didn't have the heart to let him down."
- Abraham Lincoln
Gratitude
"I have a congenital aversion to failure."
- Abraham Lincoln
Determination
"And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts."
- Abraham Lincoln
Courage
"Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."
- Abraham Lincoln
Faith
"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
- Abraham Lincoln
Peace
"I do the very best I know how–the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end."
- Abraham Lincoln
Hard Work
"Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored."
- Abraham Lincoln
Originality
"No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens."
- Abraham Lincoln
Hope
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing"
- Abraham Lincoln
Determination
"In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years"
- Abraham Lincoln
Personal Growth
"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts."
- Abraham Lincoln
Belief
"No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar."
- Abraham Lincoln
Honesty
"Failure is inevitable. But giving up is unforgivable."
- Abraham Lincoln
Persistence
"I don't like that man. I must get to know him better."
- Abraham Lincoln
Teamwork
"Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as best he can, the same cause."
- Abraham Lincoln
Respect
"Any nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure."
- Abraham Lincoln
Respect
"Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents."
- Abraham Lincoln
Love
"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my mother."
- Abraham Lincoln
Gratitude
"As we keep or break the Sabbath day, we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises."
- Abraham Lincoln
Faith
"Life is fragile . . . Love is notIn the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln
Love
"I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him."
- Abraham Lincoln
Responsibility
"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends."
- Abraham Lincoln
Compassion
""Whatever you are, be a good one.""
- Abraham Lincoln
Personal Growth
"Whatever you are, be a good one"
- Abraham Lincoln
Integrity
"Be a good one, whatever you are."
- Abraham Lincoln
Integrity
"Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp and playing my Hohner harmonica."
- Abraham Lincoln
Contentment
"Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes."
- Abraham Lincoln
Morality
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln
Inspiration
"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being."
- Abraham Lincoln
Responsibility
"I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him."
- Abraham Lincoln
Belief in Self
"Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality."
- Abraham Lincoln
Relationships
"If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I would spend the first four hours sharpening the axe."
- Abraham Lincoln
Time Management
"Discipline is the mark of a true leader."
- Abraham Lincoln
Leadership
"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
- Abraham Lincoln
Leadership
"Perhaps a man’s character is like a tree, and his reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."
- Abraham Lincoln
Integrity
"I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."
- Abraham Lincoln
Faith
"I would rather be a little nobody, than to be a evil somebody."
- Abraham Lincoln
Belief in Self
"In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln
Hope
"If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive."
- Abraham Lincoln
Responsibility
"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember, or overthrow it."
- Abraham Lincoln
Change
"Be sure to put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."
- Abraham Lincoln
Determination
"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser—in fees, expenses, and waste of time."
- Abraham Lincoln
Wisdom
"Life is fragile . . . Love is not In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln
Love
"In the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln
Philosophy
"I can make a General in five minutes, but a good horse is hard to replace."
- Abraham Lincoln
Respect
"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just."
- Abraham Lincoln
Perseverance
"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln
Personal Growth
"And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln
Personal Growth
"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."
- Abraham Lincoln
Faith
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang out."
- Abraham Lincoln
Resilience
"“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”"
- Abraham Lincoln
Wisdom
""All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.""
- Abraham Lincoln
Love
"That some achieve great success, is proof that all others can achieve it as well."
- Abraham Lincoln
Optimism
"not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln
Personal Growth
"Ballots are the rightful, and peaceful, successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly, and constitutionally, decided, there can be successful appeal, back to bullets; that there can be no successful appeal except to ballots themselves, at succeeding elections."
- Abraham Lincoln
Peace
"I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God."
- Abraham Lincoln
Belief
"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent."
- Abraham Lincoln
Leadership
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed it ourselves."
- Abraham Lincoln
Responsibility
"I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class, there seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warn-blooded to fall into this vice."
- Abraham Lincoln
Philosophy
"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln
Philosophy
"A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others."
- Abraham Lincoln
Knowledge
"I remember my angel mother’s prayers and how they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."
- Abraham Lincoln
Faith
"It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln
Wisdom
"Create your future; don't merely predict it."
- Abraham Lincoln
Motivation